Medical Negligence

When you think of the leading causes of death in the country, most people think of heart disease, cancer, stroke, even accidents. Few people realize that one of the top killers is also one of the most insidious and least talked about: medical error and negligence.

In the state of South Carolina, many inmates are not receiving adequate medical care. In fact, cases of negligence, in which inmates have received detrimental, even life-threatening, medical care, are on the rise.

Medical Malpractice is generally defined as negligence by a health care provider in which the medical treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of practice and causes injury or death of a patient. Given simply, it’s a medical mistake or error by a health care provider. But did you know that a delay in diagnosis […]